Suspender-buckle.



No 650,695. Patented May 29, I900. D L SMITH.

SUSPENDER' BUCKLE.

(Applicatiaa filesi Mar. 15, 1900,-

(No Model.)

m: norms Prrsns 002: Pnorou'mcm. WASHINGTON. n c.

NITED STATES ATFENT FFICE.

DWIGHT L. SMITH, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WATERBURYBUCKLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,695, dated May 29,1900.

Application filed March 15,1 900. Serial No. 8,728. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DWIGHT L. SMITH, of WVaterbury, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inSuspender-Buckles, (Case 13;) and I do hereby declare the following,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the lettersof reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front view of a buckle constructed in accordance with myinvention; Fig. 2, a rear view of the same; Fig. 3, a side view of thebuckle; Fig. 4, a detached view of the wire frame; Fig. 5, a detachedView of the lever. Fig. 6 illustrates a modification in the formation ofthe wire frame.

This invention relates to an improvement in buckles,'and particularly tothat class which comprise a back-plate and a lever pivotally connectedtherewith and adapted to clamp a web between the gripping-jaw of thelever and the back-plate, the object of the invention being a simpleconstruction wherein the back-plate is formed from a single piece ofwire, and so that the buckle consists, substantially,of two parts; andthe invention consists in the construction as herein described andparticularly recited in the claim.

As herein shown, the body or back-plate of the buckle consists of asingle piece of Wire bent to form a pivotal bar A, from which the endsrise upward and rearward, and thence turn inward, forming loops B C. Theinturned wires do not meet, but are bent downward, as at a b, and thenceoutward, as at c d, downward, as at cf, and thence inward, the ends D Epreferably meeting at the center of the frame, the various bends beingall in the same plane. Preferably the ends D E are inclosed by a tube Fin the usual manner of 'turned at substantially right angles to theplate, and fingers g 72, which are bent around the bar A and so as topivotally connect the lever therewith. Instead of forming the frame asjust described and connecting the ends of the wire at the lower bar thewire may form thelower bar I, thence bend upward and inward, and thencebe bent outward, as at ab', and forward and inward, so as to leave endsJ K for the attachment of the lever G, the ends J K being in a planeparallel with but forward of the remaining portion of the wire, so as toleave a space between the-back and the lever for the passage of the web.In either construction it will be seen that the gripping-jaws areadapted to bear upon or force the webbing against the wires in rear ofthe lever, and that in both cases a wire back is provided, thus enablingthe production of a buckle at very low cost and yet very effective inuse.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A buckle comprising a back formed from a single piece of wire havinginset sides and a portion forwardly offset fromthe remaining portion,and a sheet-metal lever pivotally con nected to the offset portion, andhaving jaws adapted to coact with the inset sides of the frame, andwhereby a webbing passed between the frame and the lever may be clampedbetween them, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

DWIGHT L. SMITH. Witnesses:

C. H. HART, GEO. F. CARROLL.

